The weeklong celebration is titled “Keeping the Dream Alive — By Dreaming and Believing In Faith.”

Youth Night will be held Saturday, followed by a service at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, at New Jerusalem Baptist Church in Finney.

Brown is the author of “A Walking Living Miracle,” a book on her journey with cancer and how God miraculously healed her body.

She is a member of Shiloh Cathedral of Praise in Amarillo.

Reginald Hall, assistant professor of management, marketing and administrative systems at Tarleton State University in Stephenville will keynote the Sunday, Feb. 16, program. Titled “Keeping The Dream Alive That Dr. Martin Luther King Dreamed — Now What?” the program will begin at 3:30 p.m. at New Jerusalem Baptist Church.

Hall graduated from Plainview High School in 1996, where he was a two-year letterman in basketball and football. He is a doctoral candidate in educational leadership and policy studies at Tarleton, and scheduled to graduate in March.

Plainview’s Black Awareness Celebration was founded by Clarice Fennell. Yvonne Franklin is president and Ruby Riggins is secretary/treasurer.